When we process your application, we will tell you whether your household type is BID or MATCH. This lets you know whether you can bid on properties or will be matched to a property.
Applicants who need supported or fully adapted housing will be MATCH applicants and will be matched to a property without the need to bid.
Applications from people in an institution (e.g. hospital, prison or care facility), who cannot bid will be matched to suitable accommodation when this becomes available.
We know that our allocation policy doesn’t cover everyone’s circumstances. The policy allows for exceptional circumstances and discretion to be applied where you need to move or be housed urgently. In some cases, you may be matched to a property if we need to offer you housing quickly and a suitable property becomes available.
All other applicants are BID applicants and will have to bid for available properties.
When we process your application on Angus Homefinder, we will tell you if you are a Starter or Mover based on what you tell us.
When we advertise properties they will be advertised to Starters or Movers or both. To make the best and fairest use of our housing, the following guidelines will generally apply:
Properties with two or fewer bedrooms will be advertised as 65% to starters and 35% to movers;
Properties with three or more bedrooms will be advertised for both starters and movers;
Ground floor, barrier-free properties will be advertised for both starters and movers, regardless of size;
Sheltered / Retirement / Amenity and Adapted or Adaptable Housing will be advertised for starters and movers
If you place a bid on a property that doesn’t match your category you will get the following message and the bid will not be accepted.
We have retirement housing available to let in the Southesk Court complex in Ferryden.
Ferryden is a quaint and quiet fishing community just on the outskirts of Montrose. There are bus links to local services, the town centre and further afield, throughout Angus, and beyond.
The properties available are one-bedroom apartments. They come with modern kitchens, gas heating (cost of which is incorporated into the rent and service charge) and level access shower, as well as a communal laundry facility. There is also a communal lounge (re-opening soon, currently closed to comply with COVID restrictions). Retirement housing is recommended for those over 60 years of age, although consideration is given to younger ages.
Upcoming properties within Southesk Court will be advertised on the Angus Homefinder page from this Friday, with further detail and photos.
If you think this type of accommodation suits your needs, or that of a family member, please get in touch. brechinmontrosecht@angus.gov.uk
Available now : 1 Bedroom First Floor Flat in Westfield, Kirriemuir – DD8 5AZ
Kirriemuir is a small town in rural Angus. Westfield is outside the centre of town but within walking distance to amenities and shops.
The flat is situated on the first floor in a small block of 4. There is a communal drying area and car parking available in the development. There is a communal digital TV aerial, enabling tenants to view a wide variety of satellite services. Floor coverings or other incentives can be provided throughout the flat if required.
Brechin is a cathedral city situated in the heart of Angus. In 1992, Denburn Court was converted by Hillcrest into 35 single and two person flats. The building has secure door entry at both front and back.Tenants have use of a laundry, with coin operated washers and dryers. There are refuse rooms on all floors and a recycling centre in the rear car park. There is a communal digital TV aerial, enabling tenants to view a wide variety of satellite services. Floor coverings or other incentives can be provided throughout the flat if required.
Rent is £315.84 per month. There is a separate water charge of £22.53 (not covered by HB or UC)
Council tax band A
Electric storage heating
Lift to all floors
Car park at the rear and space for cars at the front
Abertay Housing Association has one of their 16 properties in New Road, Forfar available for let.
The properties were completed in 2018 and comprise of 8 upper floor and 8 lower floor amenity flats for people over 50.
The development is in an ideal location, close to shops and services. The properties are for single persons or couples. They combine modern living with an open plan living/ kitchen space and are highly energy efficient.
An upper floor property is available to rent now. The property has a modern bathroom complete with a shower over a bath. The current monthly rent is £337.51 with a service charge for communal landscaping of £7.46.
If you are interested in this property, please contact Abertay Housing Association’s customer service team on 01382 903545 for more information or to arrange a viewing.
It is now almost a year since we moved to our new online housing application and choice-based lettings allocations system.
We must carry out regular reviews of applications to make sure the Common Housing Register is up to date and the details we have are accurate for any bids you make.
Our HomeFinder team plans to start carrying out the first review from the new system on week beginning 18 October 2021.
We’ll review 100 applications at a time so you may not be contacted straight away. When you are asked to review your application, we’ll send you an email advising you to log in to your application to tell us if there has been any changes to your circumstances. Please also check your junk or spam email folders. If we do not hold an email address on your application, we’ll send you a letter. It’s important you do not ignore this or your application could be cancelled.
Remain on the Housing Register
If you want to stay on the Housing Register, you must log in to your application and complete a Change of Circumstances, even if there are no changes to be made. If you have forgotten your log in details, you can request a reminder of these on the log in page.
Once logged in, you should click “Report a change of circumstances”. This will then take you through your application form so you can check all your details are correct and submit the application.
Follow the prompts using the “Next” button until you reach any section you want to change and make the changes required.
At the end of the application, make sure you enter the current date in the privacy notice then click “Finish”.
Any changes you make on this form will be reviewed by a member of our team before they take effect. You will still be able to bid for properties during this process, unless your application needs further assessment on medical or support grounds.
Cancel your Application
If you no longer wish to remain on the Housing Register you can cancel your application by logging in and selecting “Cancel my application”, shown below:
If you do not respond to the review within 21 days, we will cancel your application, and you will not be able to bid on or be matched to any available properties. However, if you contact us within three months of cancellation, you can go back on to the CHR. The date of registration will be the date you made the original application.
If you need further advice or assistance, you should contact any local library
AVAILABLE TO RENT NOW: 1 BEDROOM FIRST FLOOR FLAT (single person)
DENBURN COURT
1 MONTROSE STREET, BRECHIN, DD9 7JA
Brechin is a cathedral city situated in the heart of Angus. Denburn Court was converted in 1992 by Hillcrest into 35 single and two person flats for over 40’s. The building has secure door entry at both front and back. Tenants have use of a laundry, with coin operated washers and dryers. There are refuse rooms on all floors and a recycling centre in the rear car park. There is a communal digital TV aerial, enabling tenants to view a wide variety of satellite services. Floor coverings can be provided throughout the flat.
Rent is £315.84 per month. There is a separate water charge of £22.53 (not covered by HB or UC)
Council tax band A
Electric storage heating
Lift to all floors
Car park at the rear and space for cars at the front
In our new housing allocation system, we had 15 properties advertised last week and have a further 33 on this week. We’ve received a total of 687 bids over the two weeks.
New Damacre Road properties in Brechin
This week we have our new build properties at Damacre Road, Brechin advertised. To view properties visit our Angus HomeFinder website.
Please remember that you can only bid on properties once you have a live application. To bid for properties log in on the Angus HomeFinder portal.
To access your application to view the status or update your details log in here
Please note you must complete a full housing options wizard AND a housing register application to apply for housing.
From Friday 27 November you will be able to see available properties on our new Angus Homefinder website and bid for the home you want.
This is the last stage of our move to Choice Based Lettings.
By ‘bid’ we don’t mean any exchange of money – it simply means you can apply for a property by making an ‘expression of interest’. Both ours and housing association properties will go online each week.
The bidding cycle starts on a Friday morning and ends a week later – at midnight the following Friday. It doesn’t matter when you place your bid in that week-long period, as all bids will be ranked according to priority and date of application.
Not all properties will be advertised. For example, if you have a need for particular housing with adaptations or specialist housing support, you will not be expected to bid. We will contact you as normal when a suitable property becomes available. If you are in this category you will have a household type of Match.
How to bid
You can view and bid for properties on the Angus HomeFinder website.
Once you have logged in, you will only see properties that you can bid for. You can also check your bid position and change your bids at any time during the bidding cycle.
There may be some weeks when there are no properties for you to bid on and this could be because:
there are no properties with the right number of bedrooms for your household.
your application is suspended as you have been shortlisted for another property.
your application has been cancelled as you no longer qualify.
We recommend logging into the site regularly to check the status of your bids and the availability of properties. Your bid position will show under the “previous bids” heading. If your bid is successful, we will contact you with a permanent offer of housing.
Please do not contact us to ask about the outcome of your bids.
Placing your bid
We ask that you familiarise yourself with any property before you bid, as bidding means you are willing to accept the property if it is offered to you. We aim to show photographs of all properties, inside and outside, wherever possible, and give you as much information about the property as we can.
Being flexible can help you to get housed. Our choice-based letting system is designed to make the process as straightforward as possible and to house as many people as we can. This won’t work if successful bidders refuse properties.
An application may be suspended from the housing register where two reasonable offers of housing are refused and the applicant will be unable to make any further bids for six months. If you have a priority banding because you are homeless and you refuse one reasonable offer of housing, your priority banding will be removed.
The chance of your bid succeeding
The chance of a successful bid depends on several factors. It is possible you may wait a significant length of time for a bid to be successful or you may be successful the first time you bid.
When you bid for a property:
the system will tell you your bid position for that property.
your position may change as other people bid for the same property after you.
you will have the option to withdraw a bid before the bid cycle closes.
What if you can’t bid?
If you are not able to bid, we can support you, but first please see whether family members or friends might be able to help. You can even nominate someone to bid on your behalf.
We know some applicants may not be able to get on the internet or may have other challenges that prevent them from bidding. In such instances, we may be able to place bids on your behalf or look at automatic bidding alternatives. These would enable Homefinder to bid for properties based on the preferences you chose when you joined the Housing Register.
Please bear in mind, if you refuse reasonable offers, your application could be suspended.
You can get more information and advice at the Angus HomeFinder website.
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